At first, I thought first person was easier to write in. Then I Googled that question just to be sure, and third person is easier to write well in. At least, that’s what the writer said. I’ll even copy-and-paste what the person said here. :)

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It is easier to write in third person…or more so, it is easier to write WELL in third person. People think first person is easier, but really it is harder to keep important information from the reader until the end of the story without the reader feeling cheated.
the bad thing about first person is that people tend to “tell” too much in first person. like how your character is feeling and people tend to reveal more to the reader than the POV character actually knows. and it can go on and on for paragraphs and pages of narrative- the character’s live and history. blah blah blah…
and then, readers are reading from one POV so they read about that character’s opinions, especially about other characters, so I would be careful not to tell readers the quality traits of your characters through your POV character and let your reader develop their own judgements of your characters… I hope that made sense. LOL
so I think it would be harder to write well in first person. so if you are just starting out with writing, third person would be best.

I personally prefer first person, ‘cuz yew only know ash much ash your narrator dush. What’s better, mehthinks, would depend on how yew wanna write. If yew were to have many sides, and want to show thoughts from all charries, but also keep certain info hidden, then third-person, in mah opinion, would be better, but first-person ish better if yew just want that one person’s thoughts to be revealed, and more or less everything they know…..

Thanks for the detailed response, Ally ^_^ Did you look all that up just to answer this question? O_O *is deeply flattered*

Dee: Lol, I didn’t think that was a run-on :P Hmm…that’s a very good point. Like you said, i guess it all depends whether or not you want to show the story from different sides or not. Of course, you could always do POVs… for some reason, POV stories bug me though, because I always find myself falling in love with one of the characters and totally hating the other :P

I’ve seen this done in maybe one or two books already…this may be a new thing, but what’s your opinion of first person as the general POV, but then the author switching to third person to demonstare the POV of another character? I’ve seen this done in the Nick Chronicles…

do you guys get what I mean? sorry, I have trouble explaining things sometimes :P